The Angry Grandpa is a series of YouTube videos featuring Charles "The Angry Grandpa" Green getting violently angry about minor annoyances. The videos often feature Grandpa destroying various items in his house for minor inconveniences (such as the time he destroyed his entire kitchen when he misplaced his candy), as well as his son Michael "Pickleboy" Green (who also acts as the cameraman) playing pranks on him.

In FAMILY MELTDOWN, Angry Grandpa throws a tantrum when Bridgette refuses to pay his 350 dollar cable bill. A week later, in The Reconciliation, they attempt to reconcile and Michael pays his cable bill, only to discover that Angry Grandpa hadn't watched any TV because he was texting too much, and he had another bill coming up.

An Aesop: The series of videos in which Grandpa deals deals with being evicted from his Trailwood trailer by Boeing (such as Angry Grandpa Says Goodbye... becomes a commentary on how low-income communities are powerless against large corporations who want to build on their land.

Angrish: Naturally. The more angry Grandpa gets, the more incomprehensible he becomes.

April Fools' Plot: Given the number of pranks that Angry Grandpa doles out / suffers through, this happens every year.

Berserk Button: Has many. Examples include hiding his food, showing admiration for Barack Obama and saying that his cooking sucks.

When he was asked about a cat he once owned (despite his hatred of cats), he destroyed a toaster, as shown in this video.

In POOR MAN'S LASAGNA MELTDOWN!, when Michael suggested using Barilla noodles to make the Poor Man's Lasagna, Angry Grandpa immediately grabbed the Barilla box and proceeded to smash its contents into flakes, having vowed never to eat any more Barilla products after reading about Barilla's anti-gay remarks.

Big "NO!": In The Buried Alive Prank, Grandpa lets off one of these when Michael asks him if he can come over to have turkey wings for dinner after pranking him.

Blatant Lies: Angry Grandpa is fond of this, though Michael and Bridgette pull these off during pranks.

In GRANDPA'S AFRAID TO FLY! (PRANK), Michael lets off a string of these to Grandpa, who has never flown in a plane before in his life, about post-9/11 TSA security checks.

Bilingual Bonus: One of Angry Grandpa's T-shirts says "Gubbdjävel," which roughly translates to "dirty old bastard" from Swedish.

Bond One-Liner: Angry Grandpa loves doing this after destroying something in his rages.

In HAMBURGER PIE MELTDOWN!, Angry Grandpa cooks Hamburger Pie with his son Michael. AGP lays down for a nap, thinking Michael will take the pie out in twenty minutes. Michael wakes him up an hour later - 40 minutes too late - and they rush to save the pie, which is now burning. Michael can't find pot holders, so Grandpa tries to grab the aluminum foil container that has been sitting in an oven for an hour with his bare hands. It fails miserably.

Angry Grandpa's 'solution' to certain issues with appliances and technology is to break them and force his son Michael to replace them.

The Dog Bites Back: In PICKLEBOY BREAKS GRANDPA'S CHAIR! Grandpa needles Pickleboy about being overweight, getting to the point where he's literally tossing candy at Pickleboy to mock him. Pickleboy responds by purposefully tripping on one of Grandpa's chairs, then snapping off one of its legs as he tries to get up. This leaves Grandpa speechless for a full fifteen seconds.

There was the time Grandpa destroyed the entire kitchen when his bag of candy was supposedly stolen. It turned out to be sitting on the counter, meaning that he caused thousands of dollars in damage over nothing.

He was also on the receiving end of this at least once. When he destroyed a piece of Tina's Elvis memorabilia, she responded by burning his face with a lighter while he was asleep.

As part of The Meanest Prank Ever!, Grandpa off-handedly claims he killed a girl who came to his door asking for drugs.

Jerkass Has a Point: In Angry Grandpa Destroys Bathroom, AGP destroys the bathtub and the sink over Bridgette's firecracker prank in the bathroom, when he told them not to put firecrackers in the bathroom. In hindsight, AGP was in the right for forbidding those lethal firecrackers.

Angry Grandpa: I told you: No firecrackers in the tub! But no, y'all wouldn't listen, you and your princess!

Dysfunctional Family: Angry Grandpa has had such a strained relationship with his wife and immediate children that most of them have moved far away from his reach. He maintains a love-hate relationship with the one son who regularly visits him, Michael.

Failed a Spot Check: In the Caramel Onion prank, Pickleboy gives Grandpa an unusually large caramel apple (really an onion). When Grandpa can't bite into it, he slices into the "apple" with a knife, revealing that it has layers inside. But right as Pickleboy complains that his prank didn't work, Grandpa sticks the slice into his mouth and reacts with disgust, revealing that he hadn't noticed the onion at all.

In an AGP hate comments video, Grandpa stores his false teeth in a glass cup. When he tries to put them in, he gags, apparently because his teeth won't fit in his mouth anymore. When Pickleboy tells him he'll give him five dollars to put his teeth in his mouth for three seconds, Grandpa does so, but has to clean the denture glue that is still in his mouth afterward.

In the caramel onion prank, Grandpa tried to bite into a caramel onion with his false teeth, but only managed to pull them out of his mouth.

Grandpa attempted a do-it-yourself repair on his false teeth once but only managed in ruining a 200 dollar set of teeth.

Fartillery: In an old Q and A with Grandpa, Grandpa claimed that if he got in a fight with Chuck Norris, Grandpa would just fart and Norris would pass out.

In Angry Grandpa - Ice Cream, Pickleboy tricks Grandpa into believing that Jennifer is eating his ice cream, making him take her ice cream cone away and eat it... when it actually had shaving cream in it.

In BRIDGETTE'S UNO FREAKOUT!!, Bridgette gets upset when Michael keeps beating her at Uno. In a subsequent vlog, Michael reveals that he pocketed the good Uno cards (such as skip and draw four wild cards) and filled the deck with regular number cards so that Bridgette would never get any good cards when playing him.

In Angry Grandpa - The Hit & Run PRANK!, Angry Grandpa gets drunk and Bridgette's dad has to drive him home. The next morning, he calls Michael and tells him he doesn't remember getting home. So what does Michael do? He decides to "teach [his] father the dangers of drinking and driving" by making it look like he hit someone while he was drunk.

Girls Have Cooties: A truly bizarre example: Angry Grandpa claims that loose women have "vagina spiders" which crawl out at night from unmentionable places. In Ask Grandpa - Q&A W/ Angry Grandpa, Grandpa claims that if he could get rid of one thing, he would get rid of them.

Good Parents: "I may be a fucking asshole piece of shit, but I love my kids! I'd never hurt 'em!" He's repeatedly expressed a desire to see Casey Anthony die due to this philosophy, and also is dumbstruck by the Newtown shootings because that meant that, for the parents of the victims, "Christmas won't ever be right again."

Hair-Trigger Temper: As mentioned elsewhere on this page, a common theme of the videos is Grandpa destroying things over minor inconveniences.

Happy Ending Override: Watch the videos where Grandpa is happy and teary eyed about getting a home, hugging Michael and telling him he loves him with all of his heart. Then realize that in the next few months, he and Pickleboy will have several more major disputes, including one in which he refused to live in said house just to spite Michael for freaking out about Grandpa backing into the back yard pool.

Angry Grandpa pretends to hit on his neighbor in GRANDPA SEDUCES TINA THE PRANK, only for his neighbor to pull the prank right back on him by pretending that she wants him.

In GRANDPA'S NEW DAUGHTER (PRANK BACKFIRE), Michael dresses up as a woman and claims that he is transgender to troll Grandpa. Grandpa takes it surprisingly well and proceeds to drive him to a gas station... where he forces him to get out of the car and drives off, leaving an embarrassed Michael to hide by the dumpster in the back of the gas station for hours.

In The Buried Alive Prank, Pickleboy traps a sleeping Grandpa underneath a vacuum box, only for Grandpa to trap him, who is claustrophobic, underneath the same box.

Hollywood Heart Attack: Justified: Angry Grandpa will occasionally pretend to have one of these as revenge against Michael for pranking him, complete with complaints of shoulder pain and collapsing. This trick has worked several times, as Grandpa dying is an Adult Fear of Michael.

Leitmotif: Several prank videos play the instrumental version of Habanera (also known as L'amour est un oiseau rebelle), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen in the background as they set up the prank.

Kansas City Shuffle: In BRIDGETTE'S UNO FREAKOUT!!, Pickleboy leans the camera over to Bridgette's cards, and Bridgette admonishes him, thinking he's cheating by looking at her cards. It later turns out that he was cheating, but was actually pocketing the good cards instead of peeking at Bridgette's cards.

Left It In: Michael's KidBehindACamera vlogs often have scenes in which he asks Bridgette to cut out parts of the vlog.

Please Subscribe to Our Channel: While Michael and Bridgette often ask viewers to do this to wrap up a vlog, Angry Grandpa notably does not; while he thanks people for watching him, he doesn't go out of his way to promote himself, though he does provide certain memorabilia to his "young'uns" in Grandpa's Army every once in a while.

Potty Failure: Angry Grandpa has soiled himself several times, either while trying to fart or hurrying to the bathroom.

Precision F-Strike: Bridgette swears considerably less than AGP and Michael do, so when she does it counts as this.

Rage Breaking Point: Although Grandpa is irritated at various points during POOR MAN'S LASAGNA MELTDOWN!, the last straw comes when Michael refuses to eat his Poor Man's Lasagna after Grandpa refuses to pick moldy cheese out of it. Grandpa loses all semblance of composure, tosses the lasagna onto the floor, starts cussing out Michael, and then crawls on the floor screaming and crying in rage like a spoiled child.

Rage Quit: Double Subverted: In the first Christmas video, Angry Grandpa storms out when he finds out he showed up too late to see his grandkids open presents. It turns out that he was just standing outside of the door, and when he comes back in he proceeds to rage more until deciding to leave again.

Reaction Shot: Several early videos on the Angry Grandpa Show are of Angry Grandpa reacting to Internet shock videos, showcasing his shock and disgust.

Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In GRANDPA QUITS SMOKING??! (THE BET), Grandpa tries to get Michael to pay his light bill in cash so he can get lottery tickets. Michael tells Grandpa he will give him a thousand dollars if he can avoid smoking for two days. Michael tells his brother, Charlie, that he will give him a thousand dollars if he sends him a picture or lets him know otherwise that he has been smoking. The next day, in GRANDPA'S BUSTED! (CAUGHT IN THE ACT), Charlie rats out Grandpa and invites him over to film him smoking (proving that he had lost the bet on-camera). Michael decides not to give Charlie the thousand dollars because he told on his own father.

Rewatch Bonus: If you look closely in POOR MAN'S LASAGNA MELTDOWN!, you might notice that the car alarm goes off right when Michael leans on the counter, since Grandpa's keys were hidden under lasagna debris.

The Scapegoat: To cover up the fact that Clyde (one of Bridgette's dogs) had chewed on Pickleboy's glasses, Grandpa starts gleefully hitting Pickleboy's glasses with a hammer in PICKLEBOY'S BROKEN GLASSES! to make him believe that he had ruined them.

In the 2012 Doomsday prank, Grandpa elects to leave without getting any of his things upon learning (falsely) that an asteroid is heading for Earth.

When Grandpa reads an article about Lindsey Graham warning people that Charleston could be nuked if the US doesn't intervene in Syria, he leaps into his truck and skips town, dumping Michael off at a gas station.

Spin-Off: The Angry Grandpa Show (itself being a relaunch of a banned YouTube account), which deals with Angry Grandpa's outbursts, has launched several spin-off channels, including but not limited to:

Angry Grandpa will do this from time to time. A notable example is in Ask Grandpa - Q&A W/ Angry Grandpa, when he reveals the one thing he would get rid of in the world if he could.

Inverted in POOR MAN'S LASAGNA MELTDOWN!, when Grandpa realizes that he was the one who opened the package of cheese which grew mold on it, and thus instigated his meltdown when Michael wouldn't eat his lasagna.

Vomit Discretion Shot: Most of the time Grandpa or Michael has to throw up, they do it over a sink, covering their mouth with something, or something otherwise out of sight. These videos will come with a disclaimer most of the time.

What Happened to the Pet?: Grandpa's dog Hannah was present in early videos set in Angry Grandpa's second trailer park, but vanished soon after. It was later explained that the trailer park that Angry Grandpa lived in wouldn't allow pit bulls, and thus he had to give his dog to his daughter Kim. When Grandpa moved into a house that allowed him to live with his dog, Kim and her family had grown attached to Hannah, and thus Grandpa decided to let them keep her, later getting several other dogs of his own.

Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Angry Grandpa, following a tantrum, will ask why Michael made a mess, or claim that Michael broke something that Grandpa clearly destroyed moments ago. He uses the justification that since Michael angered him, he caused it to happen. Michael, after a few days of reflection, will inevitably replace what Grandpa broke.

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